Course Requirements: Students must attend at least 7 sessions. Up to one make-up session per Fall and Spring is allowed. See the faculty advisor for approved make-up opportunities and related assignments.
Sponsoring Faculty or Organizations The course is sponsored by the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics under the direction of Dr. Mary Horton. This is a collaborative course, offered with Baylor College of Medicine, the TMC Library, and TMC History of Medicine Society.
All sessions are 12-1pm, Bring Your Own Lunch.
In Person TMC Library Street Level Conference Room or other locations as posted.
Potential make-up assignments (all make-up assignments must be approved by
- Faculty Advisor
- Visit to the TMC Historical Archives for a Scavenger Hunt
- Visit the DeBakey Museum with an Assignment to complete
- Pertinent Rice University or other TMC seminars as announced: Note attached announcement on the Kalb Lecture, Rice University’s History Department’s website
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| Monday, January 12th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
From Asylums to Hospitals to Prisons: The History of Institutional Psychiatric Care in America Mary E. Horton, Director, Medical Student Research Office, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston TMC Library Classroom 1 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, January 26th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Changing Bodies and the History of Anthropometrics Moramay López-Alonso, Associate Professor of History, Rice University BCM Main 111A 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, February 9th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Surgical Technologies and Ethical Questions Jacob Moses PhD, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities University of Texas Medical Branch BCM Main 111A 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, February 23rd | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Removing Race from Clinical Algorithms: History, Politics, and Medicine David S. Jones MD, Ph.D., A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University Houston Methodist Research Institute, Bookout Auditorium (2nd floor) 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, March 9th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
A History of Anatomical Dissection in Medical Education Jason Mussell PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans TMC Library Classroom (Zoom Lecture) 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, March 23rd | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Tour of Old & Rare Books Collection Kelsey Koym, John P. McGovern Historical Collections & Research Center TMC Library Street Level Conference Room 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, April 6th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
The Role of the Civil War in the Development of Contemporary Surgery Eugene Boisaubin MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, UT McGovern Medical School BCM Main 111A 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Monday, April 20th | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Ancient Medicine & the Hippocratic Oath Victor Saenz PhD, Houston Institute & Rice University TMC Library Street Level Conference Room 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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